I don't have time to read all the posts in this thread so I don't know if it was discussed but my concern about having two good young QB's is that when Coach Saban decides who the starter will be the other kid may decide to transfer.
2016 Season QB Thread
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You are the only person that continues to bring up the dual threat aspect of it. The only sensitive posts about it have been yours stating your fear of a DT guy and some unsubstantiated belief they put the team on their back each week and end up doing too much.
I don't guess you saw Coach Saban's presser saying Jalen was coming in on the 3rd series no matter the situation.
Again, not sure how to reply to the "with your logic Bateman should have started the game" since I have no idea where that came from and has nothing to do with my previous comment.
I wonder if I'm the only one who bailed when this thread got all defensive chippy sword fight-ish.
That was my worry too but apparently BB's father has said he's staying until he graduates. Plus Hurts doesn't strike me as the type that would run away from a challenge.
Talk is cheap and only time will tell I suppose..
Three national titles versus one mop up duty and he can easily be better than A.J. or Coker.
I'd be interested in knowing how you figured that out. Please share
Thanks for this link. However, having watched the play in question, I do not agree with the writer's assessment at all. RBR claims Barnett should have kept the ball and run to the right. This is wrong, for two reasons. First, it's 3rd and 2. Situation is you have a 230 lbs running back with momentum and he's going to get that 2 yards most of the time. Second, USC #35, mlb, is still unblocked at the point when Barnett has to hand off the ball. If Barnett keeps it and 35 read that correctly and comes around, it's a foot race to the first down marker. Barnett might have beat him, but he might not have. It's far from obvious. The problem with the RBR assessment is it assumes 35 would have broken on a fake, which is not a known. So, yes, Barnett had a chance to keep a read option run, but he made the right decision to hand off. In fact, I doubt very seriously it was actually an option. I believe it was a handoff all the way that simply had the QB decoy off to the right just in case the MLB was screened somehow.
O.K.,so you tell me and everyone else here, how Blake can be better than A.J. and Coker?
What's he shown you that would make you think that he can be "better" than three national championship quarterbacks.
This is getting ridiculous.
I think if coach had left Barnett in he likely would have had an excellent game as well based on his performance we saw. That might have completely undermined Hurts opportunity to compete going forward. I believe coach now that he had every intention of playing hurts on 3rd possession regardless rather than it just Barnett looking nervous.
Both of these guys can play and should play. I think we will see a dual rotation quite a bit this season.
Everyone keeps mentioning hurts coolness and that Barnett was nervous. Well Barnett had not had any game action in 2 years whereas hurts played last fall for his high school. I think it's quite okay to spot Barnett some nervousness after a 2yr layoff.
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Meaning no disrespect, I think it started to get ridiculous when you wrote several categories and claimed Hurts was he best in all of them as compared to Barnett. That's you using one game to assess qualities, and maybe not very accurately. I don't see anyone saying that Barnett has had a better career than AJ or anyone else. But then you probably wouldn't say that of Hurts either i assume. And yet for Hurts you have all these accolades. The fact is that Barnett's big pass in the later part of the game was a thing of beauty. My eyes popped when he read the coverage, looked off the safety, found a second option and fired a laser to OJH down the middle. You know what we've never had in the saban era is a guy who is willing to fire dimes over the middle. The same "amazing" stuff that kept getting us beat by teams like OSU and Cardell Jones in 2014, because we assume for the most part college QBs can't do that consistently. It's a high risk high reward throw that requires lots of talent. We only saw it once from Barnett so I'm not ready to anoint him yet either, but that kind of throw has not been a regular part of our offense.
If you read through this thread the one's pointing out Barnett's talents are much more complimentary of Jalen than the ones all on the Jalen bandwagon.
USC many end up the easiest of the next 4 games as far as the trenches, and are not sold on for instance that the team plays harder for one over the other, or that execution of any Freshman should be negated because of what part of the game their execution was displayed(ESPN).
We should all let this play out. 2 great QB potential, give both credit. Coach Saban seems to be leaning that way. No need to laugh at anyone over their opinion after game one.
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I agree, I think they will go with the hot quarterback throughout the game, and run a rotation around that, given the situation.
It could be the case that it wasn't really an option at all, and that was just a gale, but if it was a read option, BB did make the wrong read. It's a single read play. If the DE or OLB crashes the RB down the line, which he did on that play, the QB should keep the ball. The ILB isn't in the read for this play at all.
We are talking freshman in their first game. Aj was hand off left hand off right until he got a little confidence.
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